Shelley v. Kraemer

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argument by Marshall

…“restrictive covenants” in housing (Shelley v. Kraemer [1948]), and “separate but equal” facilities for African American professionals and graduate students in state universities (Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents [both 1950]).

opinion of Vinson

…to white persons only (Shelley v. Kraemer, 1948). His opinion for the court in 1947 upheld the power of the federal courts to enjoin a strike in coal mines then under control of the federal government. He strongly dissented from the court’s opinion holding unconstitutional the president’s seizure of…

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